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Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston, Lincolnshire: historic market town and port on the River Witham (the Haven) in the Fens. Medieval England's leading wool port after London, home of the Boston Stump, Pilgrim Fathers link, and the Boston Barrier flood defense.
Botshabelo
Botshabelo ("place of refuge") names two South African settlements: an 1865 Berlin Mission station near Middelburg, Mpumalanga, founded by Merensky and Grützner, and a 1979 apartheid resettlement township 55 km east of Bloemfontein, Free State.
Bottrop
Bottrop, a county-free city of about 117,000 in Germany's Ruhr area, grew around coal mining from 1856, closed its last mine in 2018, and is known for the Tetraeder landmark, InnovationCity climate program, Movie Park Germany, and the Alpincenter indoor ski slope.
Bouaké
Bouaké, formerly Gbékékro, is Côte d'Ivoire's second-largest city, capital of Gbêkê region and Bandama Valley district; founded 1898 around a French military post, railway town and trade hub.
Boulder City, Nevada
Boulder City, Nevada: city in Clark County founded in 1931 as a federal reservation for Hoover Dam workers; gambling illegal, growth-capped, 14,885 residents (2020), city-owned utilities.
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado: home-rule city in Boulder County at the Rocky Mountain foothills, pop. 108,250 (2020). Home of CU Boulder, federal research labs, dual-slope water supply, and Colorado's highest flash-flood risk.
Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine commune west of Paris (INSEE 92012), 119,019 inhabitants in 2023; defined by the Renault factories founded 1898 and closed 1992, and the Île Seguin redevelopment with La Seine Musicale and the Le Large art center.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais, France), sub-prefecture on the English Channel; ancient Gesoriacum/Bononia. Leading French fishing port (~33,000 t auctioned yearly), Capécure seafood cluster, Nausicaá aquarium; 40,539 inhabitants in 2023.
Bouna
Bouna is a town in northeastern Côte d'Ivoire, chief town of the Bounkani region near the Ghana border and the historic center of the Koulango kingdom.
Bourke, New South Wales
Bourke is a historic outback town on the Darling River in far north-west New South Wales, Australia, established 1861. Known as the gateway to the outback, once the world's biggest wool railhead, source of the phrase "back o' Bourke".
Bournemouth
Bournemouth, a south-coast English seaside resort founded in 1810 by Lewis Tregonwell, largest of England's seaside towns (196,455 residents, 2021 Census), part of BCP unitary authority, with tourism, Silicon Beach tech, and Victorian resort heritage.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green, Kentucky: county seat of Warren County, incorporated 1812, population 72,294 (2020). Confederate capital of Kentucky 1861-62, home of Western Kentucky University and the National Corvette Museum.
Bowmanville
Bowmanville, Ontario: community in Clarington, Durham Region, on Lake Ontario. Known for the Darlington nuclear site and BWRX-300 SMR project, the Bowmanville GO Extension, and the Bowmanville Hospital redevelopment.
Boynton Beach, Florida
Boynton Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, on the Atlantic coast between West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. Named for Major Nathan S. Boynton, platted by the Deweys in 1898; 2020 population 80,380.
Bozeman, Montana
Bozeman, Montana: fourth-largest Montana city and Gallatin County seat, home of Montana State University; fast-growing Rocky Mountain hub with a high-tech economy, Yellowstone gateway recreation, and high housing costs.
Bozeman, MT Micro Area
Bozeman, MT Micro Area (CBSA 14580) was the OMB micropolitan statistical area covering all of Gallatin County, Montana, centered on Bozeman; the fastest-growing US micro area, later published as a metropolitan statistical area with about 127,000 residents in 2024.
Bozhou, Anhui
Bozhou (亳州市) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Anhui, China, established in 2000 with Qiaocheng District and Guoyang, Mengcheng, and Lixin counties; known as the World Capital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, hometown of Hua Tuo and Cao Cao, GDP 262.1 billion yuan in 2025.
Bracknell
Bracknell is a town in Berkshire, England, about 30 kilometers south west of London, designated a New Town in 1949 and rebuilt from a small market town into a major Thames Valley center.
Brad
Brad, a town in Hunedoara County, Romania, in the Metaliferi Mountains, is a Roman-era gold mine (Pleiades, Barrington Atlas 21 E3) with the Treptele Romane gallery at Ruda-Brad and the Gold Museum.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
Braddock, Pennsylvania is an Allegheny County borough east of Pittsburgh, site of Carnegie's first steel mill (Edgar Thomson Works, 1875). Population fell from about 20,000 in the 1920s to 1,721 in 2020; John Fetterman was mayor 2006-2019.
Bradenton, Florida
Bradenton, Florida: county seat of Manatee County on the Manatee River, about 40 miles south of Tampa. Population 55,698 (2020 census), 58,014 (2025 estimate); founded from the 1843 Braden brothers' settlement, incorporated as Bradentown in 1903.
Bradford
Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England, with a metropolitan district population of 546,400 at the 2021 Census, once nicknamed Worstedopolis as the world's leading worsted wool center.
Bradford, PA Micro Area
Bradford, PA Micro Area (CBSA 14620) is a micropolitan statistical area covering McKean County, Pennsylvania, with principal city Bradford. Population 39,904 (ACS 2024), 979.7 sq mi, median age 44, median household income $62,905, oil-field heritage.
Brahmapur, Odisha
Brahmapur (Berhampur), Odisha: fourth-largest city of Odisha in Ganjam district, 14 km from the Bay of Bengal; trade, education and healthcare hub of southern Odisha with Odisha's first municipality (1867).
Braidwood, New South Wales
Braidwood is a heritage-listed town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, about an hour east of Canberra, surveyed in 1839 and named for Dr Thomas Braidwood Wilson.
Brăila (city)
Brăila, Danube port city and seat of Brăila County, Romania; Ottoman İbrail 1538-1829, later Wallachia's grain-export hub; 154,686 residents (2021 census), 12th among county seats.
Braintree, Massachusetts
Braintree, Massachusetts: Norfolk County town incorporated 1640, birthplace of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and John Hancock; population 39,143 (2020), mayor-council government, South Shore Plaza, Red Line terminus, and a 752-unit MBTA Communities Act development.
Brakpan
Brakpan is a mining-founded town in the City of Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa, between Benoni and Springs. Coal mining began 1888, gold 1905; named after a brackish pan on farm Weltevreden; municipality 1912, merged into Ekurhuleni 2000.
Brampton
Brampton is a city in the Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto; Canada's 7th largest city, it grew to 791,486 people in 2024.
Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon, Manitoba: western Manitoba's second-largest city on the Assiniboine River, incorporated 30 May 1882 as a CPR divisional point; 2021 population 51,313, trading population 180,000, home of Brandon University.